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[shoprichards]

i am bit confused to start any business with china's market. how can i verify them, please help me by giving atleast two to three unique methods ..........

[haydee_salehoo]

Hi Shoprichards,

Have a look at the following posts on the topic:

How to Qualify your China Supplier
How to self-check your Chinese suppliers...
Dealing with The Chinese

These are very helpful posts!

The basic steps I use to verify Chinese suppliers (and this may also applies to other suppliers) are:
1. I run a Whois check on their website and make sure I only deal with those who have been online for at least 2 years.
2. I check for satisfactory contact details -phone number, physical address that I can check in Google Maps and email address preferrably from a business email account and not from a free email provider.
3. I check for safe payment methods like credit cards and PayPal so I can be sure that if something goes wrong, the transaction can be reversed. For some Chinese suppliers, they also accept L/C which is also a safe way of paying them for goods. But I'd suggest only using this method for really huge purchases.
4. I make a small sample order first to test them and to see the quality of their products.
5. And finally, if you wish to buy BRANDED goods, I'd suggest not sourcing them from China. Since the vast majority of branded goods from China turned out to be fakes, I'd say, assume that this is the case every time. They are a very good source of unbranded, generic goods though. Since these products are manufactured there, then, they can definitely give you the best price!

If you wish, there are also advertisers here who can verify them for you or who can be your representative to Hong Kong Trade Shows and check out the suppliers for you for a fee.

Hope that helps!

Cheers,
Haydee

[Andy777]

http://www.easyauctionbusiness.com/H...On-eBay-1.html

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[jason830]

You can go to their site and see are they have authentication,phone number,then call him.

[Pete]

I have a partner in China who does business verifications. She will make personal visits to places in the Shenzhen area, visit other cities within a day's travel and do online checks for the rest of the country.

Here's a link - In Personal Visits to Verify Shenzhen Suppliers ONLY $27.50

[studio1one]

Originally Posted by Andy777

http://www.easyauctionbusiness.com/H...On-eBay-1.html

http://www.easyauctionbusiness.com/H...On-eBay-2.html

got a bone to pick with your info there Andy

If they accept Western Union or Money Gram – it's most likely a scam.

I would say that in the markets most people here buy, all the suppliers will happily accept WU. It's a popular payment method by many many legit Chinese suppliers.

I've never understood this, if they accept WU they are a scammer atttitude because in my experience it's just not true, it's a very low fee cost effective method for small orders and is often preferred to TT by many Chinese suppliers for low value orders.


I've said it many times before and I'll say it again, payment methods do not protect you, sensible due dilligence protects you.

Obviously there are exceptions to this rule, credit cards offer a lot of protection but when have you ever paid to China by CC?

L/C is a very good protective method of payment and allows specific criteria relating to QC to be guaranteed before fund release but again, how many people that use your site or on here are going ot be buyin the kind of volume from manafacturer that requires L/C?


If you want to have a safe transaction do not choose a safe payment method, choose a safe company, by the time it comes to parting with your funds you should already have enough info on who you ar edealing with to not worry about the payment method.

[wholesaleguru87]

very good articles,from people already posted. All you need!
pete's service i have only heard good things about, for $27.50, its better to be safe than sorry!

[Qin_Qin]

Lots of Chinese supplier is sincerely to do business with anyone of all world, their goal is same as anyone of forum to earn money. And always they meet many scammer from oversea, the key point between business is communcation and considerate.
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